SENDGRID

SendGrid believes in investing in building a strong team, and so it hosts two retreats a year to give employees a chance to align around company objectives and spend some quality time bonding. Gathering together in Colorado during the summer and traveling abroad to the beaches of Mexico in the winter, the company outings are filled with team-building exercises—and plenty of time to build genuine friendships.

Each day in the office at SendGrid starts the same way, with the whole team gathered in the kitchen, sipping coffee and swapping their stories about everything from work to personal lives. This is where the group builds the rapport needed to hash out tricky challenges or interesting ideas every day.